citylessadj.

Brit.

/ˈsɪtɪlᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈsɪdilᵻs/

Forms: late Middle English sitiles, 1600s citilesse, 1600s citylesse, 1800s– citiless, 1800s– cityless.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: city n., -less suffix.

Etymology: < city n. + -less suffix. Compare townless adj.In sense 2 after ancient Greek ἄπολις in the phrase πόλις ἄπολις a city that is no city, a ruined city; compare also quot. 1829 at sense 1, where cityless is translating ancient Greek ἄπολις in the sense ‘without city, state, or country’.

1. Without a city or cities; having no cities. Also: not having a city in which to live; not living in a city or cities.In quot. c1450 as an epithet.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [adjective]

fieldena1425

rustic?1440

citylessc1450

champestrea1492

rural?a1500

rustical1542

agrestc1550

predial1592

champestrial1612

agrestic1617

agrestical1623

agrested1650

upland1654

countrified1756

agrestian1812

country1827

mofussil1828

agrestial1840

landward1844

bucolic1846

out-country1939

land-bound1972

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2286 ‘Sirres, by my sothe,’ quod þe segge, ‘Sitiles I hiȝt.’ ‘Qwi so..How tidis it þe & tou[n]les þi toname is callid?’

a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 159 Great Britain must no longer incur the barbarous note, of being City-lesse in Cæsar's daies.

1829 I. Taylor tr. Herodotus viii. iii. 606 He forbad Eurybiades to put to the vote the proposition of ‘a cityless man’ [Gk. ἀπόλι ἀνδρί].

1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 242/1 Roving and puny bands of the naked, cityless, and untutored Indian.

1872 H. W. Longfellow Christus 199 The cityless river, that flows From fountains that no one knows, Through the lake of Galilee.

1903 Studia Pontica 1 86 Pompey..founded [cities] as centres of Graeco-Roman civilization in this citiless Oriental land.

1971 R. Angell in New Yorker 6 Nov. 140/2 The white, autoborne, and nearly cityless suburban middle class.

2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 23 Mar. 21 The devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami are being felt still... Hundreds of thousands were made homeless, jobless and cityless.

†2. That is not a city. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 86 In steed of a city it is altogether, as one saith πόλις ἄπολις, that is, A City Citylesse, or The remains of that which was a City.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cityless
释义	citylessadj. Brit. /ˈsɪtɪlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈsɪdilᵻs/ Forms: late Middle English sitiles, 1600s citilesse, 1600s citylesse, 1800s– citiless, 1800s– cityless. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: city n., -less suffix. Etymology: < city n. + -less suffix. Compare townless adj.In sense 2 after ancient Greek ἄπολις in the phrase πόλις ἄπολις a city that is no city, a ruined city; compare also quot. 1829 at sense 1, where cityless is translating ancient Greek ἄπολις in the sense ‘without city, state, or country’. 1. Without a city or cities; having no cities. Also: not having a city in which to live; not living in a city or cities.In quot. c1450 as an epithet. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [adjective] fieldena1425 rustic?1440 citylessc1450 champestrea1492 rural?a1500 rustical1542 agrestc1550 predial1592 champestrial1612 agrestic1617 agrestical1623 agrested1650 upland1654 countrified1756 agrestian1812 country1827 mofussil1828 agrestial1840 landward1844 bucolic1846 out-country1939 land-bound1972 c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2286 ‘Sirres, by my sothe,’ quod þe segge, ‘Sitiles I hiȝt.’ ‘Qwi so..How tidis it þe & tou[n]les þi toname is callid?’ a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 159 Great Britain must no longer incur the barbarous note, of being City-lesse in Cæsar's daies. 1829 I. Taylor tr. Herodotus viii. iii. 606 He forbad Eurybiades to put to the vote the proposition of ‘a cityless man’ [Gk. ἀπόλι ἀνδρί]. 1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 242/1 Roving and puny bands of the naked, cityless, and untutored Indian. 1872 H. W. Longfellow Christus 199 The cityless river, that flows From fountains that no one knows, Through the lake of Galilee. 1903 Studia Pontica 1 86 Pompey..founded [cities] as centres of Graeco-Roman civilization in this citiless Oriental land. 1971 R. Angell in New Yorker 6 Nov. 140/2 The white, autoborne, and nearly cityless suburban middle class. 2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 23 Mar. 21 The devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami are being felt still... Hundreds of thousands were made homeless, jobless and cityless. †2. That is not a city. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 86 In steed of a city it is altogether, as one saith πόλις ἄπολις, that is, A City Citylesse, or The remains of that which was a City. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1450
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